About UsabilityGeek

Hi, my name is Justin Mifsud and I am the founder of UsabilityGeek. I started this blog way back in June 2011 as a personal hobby so as to evangelize about the importance of website usability. The whole concept revolved around the idea that although poor usability has commercial and legal implications, I had noted that very few web designers and developers are aware of this. Thus I had created UsabilityGeek as a means to bridge theory and academic research with practical and personal recommendations on how one can improve website usability.

Since then, UsabilityGeek has evolved to cover a wider array of topics that extend beyond usability, such as User Experience (UX), conversion, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Information Architecture (IA). Another important development was converting the blog into a platform that accepts guest posts from people who share a common love – that of creating a great user experience.

Being also a Marketing graduate and holding various web marketing roles within a varied portfolio of industries has helped me acquire extensive marketing and client management experience. In addition to this, I have held user interface / UX design roles and am very proficient in hand coding of standards-compliant HTML and CSS. I have also designed and developed a number of web sites as a freelancer and in conjunction with leading web development companies.